“Occupied!” Jen said again from inside the stall.
“Ma’am?” the Korean intern said softly. “Are you in there?”
“What is it?” Jen snapped. “Bathroom time is Jen’s time!”
“The press pool is trying to come in, ma’am,” the girl said. “They say this is all part of the process.” Jen listened to the dull roar outside.
“Fucking fuckers,” Jen muttered. And then, “What is your name again?” Jen felt a hot flush creep up her face. She should have learned the name of a girl she had shared so many intimate moments with by now.
“Ukpi, ma’am,” the girl said.
“Ukpi? Is that even a Korean name?”
“Well, I’m Korean and that is my name.”
Jen sighed and wiped herself off. “Can they get in here, Ukpi?”
“I don’t think so. It’s just the right-wing reporters anyway. Jim Acosta is crying and Kristen Welker is using her baby to fight them off.”
“Acosta only wants to bottom in bed, you know,” Jen said. “I bruised my pubic bone with a dildo trying to please that pathetic excuse for a man.”
“OK,” Ukpi said uncertainly. The battering at the bathroom took on a rhythmic quality, like the beating of some enormous heart.
“It’s all going in my memoir,” Jen said and farted. “All of it. Finnegan and her plantation slave play obsession. Joe trying to smell my pussy. Kamala’s drinking. ALL OF IT!”
Ukpi listened as Jen flushed and then flushed again. “Trump couldn’t even get these low-flow toilets fixed! Orange shit-sucker!”
“Ma’am?” Ukpi asked, after a minute of silence.
“Just come in the stall, the door’s open.”
Ukpi looked in. Jen was still sitting on the toilet, her expensive panties around her ankles.
“Shut the door behind you,” Jen said tiredly. “White House security is not what it used to be.”
Ukpi fidgeted in her intern uniform, blue jacket and skirt, stiff white shirt, a lanyard heavy with passes, IDs, and keycards. Jen leaned forward on the toilet and press her face into Ukpi’s stomach.
“I see why Joe likes this,” Jen whispered. “Stroke my hair, tell me everything is going to be alright.”
“Everything is going to be alright, ma’am,” Ukpi said, stroking Jen’s hair. She took off her jacket as Jen held her and hanged it and the lanyard on the hook on the door. She then took off her shirt and pressed Jen’s face into the soft flesh of her stomach.
“No bra?” Jen asked.
“I’ve never needed one,” Ukpi said, stroking her own small breasts lightly.
“They’re perfect,” Jen whispered, covering them with her hands. “You’re perfect.”
“Thank you, ma’am,” Ukpi said, shuddering.
“Stop calling me ‘ma’am,’” Jen said lightly. “You make me feel so old.”
“Yes, ma’am,” Ukpi whispered.
Jen slid her hands up the back of the girl’s legs and cupped her small buttocks. “You’re just so tiny,” Jen told her. “I just want to throw you around.”
Ukpi leaned over and touched Jen’s swollen vulva as it hovered inches over the toilet water, running two fingers along each side of her clitoris. Jen sighed and bit the flesh over Ukpi’s hip as the bathroom door came crashing down.
Tee hee.
Yeah, the only false step here was “right wing” reporters.
Any reporter that doesn’t fawn over them is a right-wing nutjob insurrectionist Trumpist. I mean, duh.
Uh huh, and can you name one that doesn’t do exactly that – fawn over them?
The straight one?
Oh, now we know you’re making shit up.
That great Enemy of the People, Peter Doocey?
He really was an incompetent.
…and horning in on Meaujeaux territory with the non-body-horror lesbian porn there.
Mojeaux or Stacey Abrams inspired?
I started one of her books. Can’t get into it but that says more about me than her because It’s a genre I don’t read.
You must be some kind of racist.
If everyone is a racist, no one is a racist.
I’m not an expert, but I think that’s what a racist would say.
AM NOT NEITHER!
Racism problem SOLVED!
“Nexxxt!”
Man, and I thought it was going to be solved after Obama’s election. I seem to remember an article to that effect…
It was solved, and then the white people rebelled and elected the white supremacist, that’s why we have problems now!
Your Pulitzer Prize, sir.
/queues up Avenue Q
I had never heard of Avenue Q, googled it and made it halfway through the synopsis of Act 1 before I stroked out.
WTF did I just read, that’s an award winning musical?
The song I was referencing (NSFW). And most people know about it from the song The Internet is for Porn (really NSFW).
Saw it once when it came around, it wasn’t bad.
I think I’m just constitutionally repulsed by musicals, especially “funny” ones. I click on those and just start cringing. I’d want to leave if I was there in person.
And yet, I really loved Don Giovanni when I saw it. So maybe I’m just a snob.
I laughed. I cried. Five stars out of five!
Jim Acosta is crying and Kristen Welker is using her baby to fight them off.
I’m dying here.
A cliffhanger?
Definitely missing the climax
It’ll come, Sean, just relax.
“We don’t want to treat everybody the same” – our VP and then next sentence “Everyone must get vaccinated”. Eeesh. I need more SugarFree
y my pipi hard?
Right up til the Toilet water, then I gagged,
Good Job SF!
Ukpi, Chuck pee, when did Q get the reins-ee?
Oh my
You took the words right out of my mouth
Upon reflection and in context, that sounds bad.
“It’s all going in my memoir,” Jen said and farted. “All of it. Finnegan and her plantation slave play obsession. Joe trying to smell my pussy. Kamala’s drinking. ALL OF IT!”
It’s the small details that get me every time.
Well done, SF!
Notice she didn’t mention Hunter.
Some memories just get blocked out when they are excessively traumatic.
Or maybe Hunter has hypno-powers
The Hunter in this universe is just a figment of Joe’s imagination.
Either would explain Hunter’s ability to enter rooms without anyone knowing how he got in, but being a figment would not explain his ability to interact with others.
Yep – everyone else just saw a hat and a rug.
I was pleasantly surprised earlier when I went to the county courthouse to renew my carry permit. I was expecting to have to go through the mask requirement bullshit, but when I arrived, there were no signs posted, the Sheriff’s deputies working the security checkpoint were unmasked, and all the staff I saw had no masks. The only masks I saw were on some visitors, and those were relatively few. I had thought that since it was a government building in PA, they’d be full covidiot, but not at all. There was a big banner with signatures from many (all?) of the staff where they pledged to be “anti-racist,” but no COVID stuff. Not even a sign mentioning the disease at all.
Never have I been jealous of the East Coasters, but there you have it.
By the way, I made the comment as the last thread was dying, but I would talk to your friend not about how the plane is dangerous, but rather from a more training perspective. Keep the pride level down, as you are right in that will fuck people up. But saying that he will need a lot more training to wring the potential out of the thing might work. And hopefully, help him see that maybe the engine isn’t right.
We’re splitting into two species. Where I am the hysteria is as bad as it’s ever been.
This side of the Delaware river is doing just fine. Come on down!
I suspect it’s different near where it meets the Schuylkill.
Kleinepatzer has expressed interest in remaining in NE PA when he graduates. That should be enough to convince the Mrs. that we can head in that direction.
All are welcome…all are welcome.
I’ll introduce you to my “sportsmen club”
Narrator: “He was referring to his penis.”
Thanks for scaring another one away Sean.
I love this place. That was gold.
“club”. Such a braggart.
That boy is the only family member who has actually fired a weapon (we are transplanted city folk). I have high hopes for him. And thanks, I think…
The increase in face diaper wearers at my gym seems to have stopped. We’re at a steady amount of face diaper wearers.
We have a few, I don’t know how the hell you can work out in one.
I always wonder, if they are that scared or do they really believe in the tiger repelling rock?
I’m not sure.
I have noticed that they’re split 50/50 between elderly folks and younger (20s) folks.
That seems to be the split w/ walking around masked – 20-somethings or the elderly. More younger folks, really.
There are an absolutely insane number of people around here walking by themselves with a mask on. I bet they fucking love science.
I have co-workers who drive BY THEMSELVES wearing a mask.
WTH?
I see people driving by themselves with masks on. I will go with charitable explanation that they’re ride-share drivers and don’t bother to pull the masks down between fares. But I know that’s not really true. Insanity.
I wish I could give you a concrete example that is even more risible. But I am not at liberty to disclose it.
Well yeah they fucking love science. You’re in the belly of the beast.
That I am. That I am.
It stopped being about protecting yourself or others some time ago. It is now the squishy lefty equivalent of a MAGA hat. Its a shibboleth, a symbol of the tribe you belong to.
Masks are the new MAGA–I like it, it’s catchy.
Bs. Trump didn’t mandate everyone wear Maga hats.
Exactly this.
Here it is the reverse…even the gym staff have stopped complying. IL has a little hope just yet.
Sorry, rage-induced OT:
No organs for the unclean.
Mike Comet
@SendAliensToMe
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1h
Replying to
@LPMisesCaucus
Can you guess why they are being banned? Do you know what organ transplants require? Judging by the content of your tweet, you do not.
This guy. This guy increased my rage more than the letter. I get the argument “need a new liver, quit drinking…” but this isn’t about a destroyed organ because of a life-long habit and this asshat knows that, but is using it has their reasoning to feel smug and smart on the stupidest platform for smugness and stupidness.
Au contraire – twitter is the quintessential platform for “smugness and stupidness”.
“Whoops strike that, reverse it! My tongue has feet of clay!” I stand corrected.
Wow.
More rage.
We may be fucked.
“What does fascism actually mean” asked nobody apparently.
It’s a perfect synonym for conservatism/libertarianism, of course.
Fascism is when no Marxism
ALL HAIL CITIBANK!
Mark
@MDig85
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6h
“Like it or not those companies prop up much of this country. Without them we’d instantly be thrusted into the dark ages. I don’t like the power they hold either but they are of major importance to the well being of this country as things currently stand”
“we’d instantly be thrusted?”
That guy don’t English good.
I know it shouldn’t surprise me, but the amount of rationalizing in the replies is disturbing.
Some expert in language / AI should write a symbolic logic /semantic bot that analyzes tweets and tweet threads and replies with the results.
Let me run those replies through my sentiment analysis model…
Ah, here we are – the overwhelming sentiment is “Obey.”
HTH.
So, that would be a Sentiment AI journey?
BOOOOOO!!!
My work here is done.
*narrows gaze*
Do you want Skynet? Because that’s how you get Skynet.
Yeah, I imagine that any AI trained on Twitter would develop at least serious mental illness, if not outright homicidal intentions wrt humans.
Nah, it’d just end up dumber than a sack of hammers.
Why not both?
Homicidal *and* dumber than a sack of hammers? Someone give that computer a job in government!
Microsoft Tay says hi and the Holocaust was made up.
(Zips up from re-reading the last couple of paragraphs a couple of times).
I find myself beginning to hope there are long term bad effects from the vaccines and people start dying. Then I realize how fucked up that is, not the least because of how many people have been forced into it or are simply naive enough to just trust the ‘experts’ – which, in properly functioning institutions, they should be able to do. But dear god, these fucking people….
If we’re living in the proper dystopian sci-fi novel that I suspect we are, it may happen yet.
So when I go on my killing spree I can blame the vaccine?
I hope they are sooner than long term. A mass die off of the vaccinated is needed right about now.
Dude. Lots of vaxxed around here, too.
It was partially in jest. But only partially. My mom has been vaccinated too. Unless something big happens that will make the sheeple scared of getting these vaccines there’s no hope.
The SU’s vaxxed (Pfizer, double jab). I’d like her to stick around for a long time.
But if there are long-term deleterious effects from the vaxxes, it’s short-sighted to want everyone vaxxed (plus, since the whole world’s become one giant observational study now, you need the unvaxxed around for comparison of treatment protocols’ effectiveness). We’ve already vaxxed over 3 billion people worldwide, and can’t afford to take the risk of a long-term side effect that hits 100% of the population if everyone’s vaxxed.
You need a reserve held back. Our leaders have forgotten that lesson.
That’s pretty sick thinking.
The wife and I are vaccinated.
My parents are vaccinated.
My daughter is vaccinated.
These were all very rational decisions.
And it is completely consistent to claim that mandates for vaccinating young, healthy people with EUA vaccines is pure evil.
Was going to add that group to why it’s a fucked up thought, those who have made the best evaluation of the various risks that they can and come down on the side of doing the vaccine. I might disagree with the decision or question whether we really have accurate enough data to be able to make a good decision (back to those experts in trustworthy institutions), but I’m trying to curb my tendency to be long winded. It’s fucked up to wish ill on any of those groups, and a good person would hope this is the miracle cure it’s been pitched as or at least one whose integrated benefits outweigh it’s integrated costs. How we back off from the brink of tyranny if that’s the case is a completely separate matter, and letting that calculus make you an evil person is not good for you or anyone else. We’re likely fooked regardless of the vaccine outcomes anyway.
Realistically, what else can change the narrative? Peer-reviewed medical studies from Israel, the UK or other countries? Fauci and the CDC benevolently reversing everything they’ve done in the last 18 months and admitting their grave mistakes? A major surge of Covid this winter in the highly vaccinated states where everyone knows somebody vaccinated who almost died from the virus? The last one is at least a bit more plausible.
Unless, of course, our only hope is that President DeSantis introduces a religious exemption for the unclean to fly domestically in January 2025. Naturally, everyone will still have to wear masks.
Nothing is going to change the narrative.
For the vast majority of the population, society is more important than individuals. The only difference between conservatives and liberals is priority.
At this point in time, a large percentage of conservatives is lined up with liberals to agree that COVID is scary shit so shut the fuck up and take the jab.
Your only choice is to give in or be an outcast.
Much free-market, so for-profit.
The unvaccinated are being barred from getting organ transplants. Pretty much every social control point is being weaponized against those who make personal medical decisions the regime doesn’t like.
I don’t want an organ that has had the faux vaccine anyway. But this tyrannical horseshit needs to stop or be stopped…
Oh, look. More medical tyranny.
An Eau Claire County judge, Sarah Harless, has ordered a 14-year-old Eau Claire teenager – Mikaila Spiess – temporarily quarantined, and the county is seeking her confinement for longer, after the girl refused to stay home from school after being labeled a “close contact” with someone who had COVID-19, court records show. The judge’s order even says “guards may be posted” at the girl’s home to make sure she doesn’t leave.
The school district obtained a “court order by the end of the day with four armed police officers ready to remove her from school,” the girl’s mother, Kita Busse, says. Now the teenager and school district are engaged in a civil court battle over the matter, she confirmed. The girl is quarantined at her home, Busse says.
The coming martial law will be fun.
So, are we to assume that her parents/guardians/housemates/whatever are permitted freedom of movement?
I thought more people would have moved to homeschooling after seeing the undeniable evidence that the teacher’s union hates you.
Unfortunately, it’s nearly impossible many states to homeschool. We have it relatively easy in VA, although you’ll need the religious option to opt out of vaccine mandates. I still bought a lifetime membership in HSLDA just in case of legal trouble.
It’s not all liberal states either. We crossed Tennessee and Louisiana off of our future homestead locations because homeschooling is very difficult to do in either state with any degree of independence.
We crossed Tennessee and Louisiana off of our future homestead locations
There’s an interesting chapter of American history when the early progressive/labor/socialist/Grange movement was dominating the countryside more than the cities.
It doesn’t apply to me, but, the problem I see with homeschooling is that, every property owner pays tax on their properties, which (ostensibly) go to pay for schools. And you pay that whether you have kids in school or not. So for you parents out there, if you homeschool, yes you get to control the curriculum, which is great. However, money is still stolen from you, on threat of violence, in order to continue supporting the indoctrination.
And it’s doubly bad if you do private school because now you’re paying exorbitant tuition, AND still paying for public schools.
I guess the counterpoint would be, hell yes it’s expensive, but worth it (like divorce). I get it.
How much are your children worth to you?
Not having children, it’s a moot point, but I totally understand the sentiment’ Hence the
But when I was young and naïve I thought school choice just meant pick a school in your district and go there. Now that I understand the system of choice, vouchers, parochial, private, religious, magnet, trade and getting out from the thumb of the unions (their only jobs are to 1: increase pay and reduce obligations, 2: fund political candidates who will perpetuate them, 3: enrich those in charge of them (ref: Weingarten), and 4: make it impossible to fire their members for being truly, TRULY awful at their jobs), I understand the struggle so much better, and I feel for all you having to add “a good education for my children” to life’s hardships.
Exactly. I made this point once and was accused of being “selfish” for not wanting to pay taxes towards public school if chose to withdraw.
Homeschooling is separate from the money being taken. I wouldn’t consider homeschooling a problem in any form. Think about it this way…. there are many states where homeschooling basically isn’t an option. There are parents in those states who want to homeschool but can’t. The property tax is the farthest thing from their mind when the freedom to teach their children is taken.
Property tax should be abolished for everyone regardless of where children go to school or if someone has children. That’s a whole different issue than the freedom to teach your children.
The degree to which this is all theater with zero logical justification has made the TSA look like a well run and purposeful organization.
Hypothetical: A sister volunteers to donate one healthy kidney to her brother, and they are tissue type matches. Neither are vaccinated.
Are they allowed to proceed or not?
If he is vaccinated and she is not, can they proceed with the transplant?
I’m sure someone who has been vaccinated could use the kidney more then the unclean brother.
It would be selfish of her, not of herself, but to society, to do so otherwise!
It’s the opposite of Little Rock, bringing in the National Guard to kick somebody out of schol.
“Jen sighed and wiped herself off. ”
Thats where I stopped and pondered. That, as with all SF prose, was my 1st mistake.
Strawberry gets laid a lot.
If your decision is to refuse COVID vaccination you will be removed from the kidney transplant list
And I didn’t think the horror of a Joemala episode could be surpassed. When this poor soul passes into eternity due to kidney failure it will go down as another COVID death.
I have the weirdest boner.
No, *I* have the weirdest boner!
My boner circled back around. What the hell?
Hawt.
“Attestation is voluntary and if you do not, you are assumed unvaccinated” again, next breath “Attestation is a requirement of all Federal Employees”.
Well then it isn’t voluntary now isn’t it? Also, to request a medical or religious exemption, you must attest one way or the other. I guess I get it…you are forcing that person to declare they aren’t getting the vaccine because then you can raise the claim they are willfully disobeying the presidential EO.
My next few weeks are just going to get worse. Starting to sounds like a broken clock here and I know its annoying. At least wifey is girded against the fact that I may not have a job come Jan 2022.
Remember when there was such a fury when Reagan fired all the air traffic controllers who were on strike?
Where will the fury be when Biden fires Federal employees who resist coercive vaccination?
Looks like the EO moved that window and I would wager…2-5% and they are okay with that. The question is, are you getting rid of 5% of the better employees and keeping the same shitty 95% that you have. There will be no fury, except maybe some bitching from the airlines of some increased costs cause of a small slowdown initially. It won’t make a dent.
They are talking about proposed removal by Dec 20th if non-compliant. But it isn’t meant to punish, it is to correct behavior!
“And then, I corrected her.”
Just in time for Christmas!
I have seen people do drugs at work, come to work drunk, abuse government spending cards and it took years if not close to a decade to get rid of an employee. This? They are talking less than a month. Of course they gloss over the appeals process laid out in such discipline measures.
It’s not annoying. It’s very real and you’re brave to stand up to the tyrannical mandates.
Thanks Sean. Luckily, I am the type of person that needs to have something new. My job, I found details, projects, etc to keep it fresh. So, moving onto something else will be scary because it will be a pay cut but my people conquered the British Isles and sailed the frozen waters, I will survive.
We come from the land of the ice and snow
From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow
Seconded.
“…my people conquered the British Isles and sailed the frozen waters…”
*raises pike in salute of OBE*
The correct video link for that song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApxnAr6pRt0
I guessed the video.
You know..cause I am a radar tech, that Radar Love is my song, but…something about kittens on a boat might sway me.
I haven’t seen that video for a long time. Thanks for the reminder.
This. It’s easy for a small business owner to not get the vax or not be mandated, but you are in OBE is in the belly of the beast. It remains to be seen if he comes out like Jonah, or like Ahab. Let us pray for Jonah.
Ummm. it’s a voluntary requirement, duh.
Listen, when you signed the social contract, you volunteered to be required to do a bunch of stuff. This is how society works.
I believe I saw earlier that someone said “you have to do these things to be a member of society”. We are so fucked.
Thank you, George Costanza!
They are hoping that the unvaccinated number that are granted an accommodation will be shamed at work without actually being shamed. Me, if I am granted, are techs going to avoid conversations with me? Are they going to sour and start performing poorly? Refusing to do work for me?
Good stuff all around. I should be getting my template soon for my religious accommodation here in a week or so.
This whole thing sucks. I hope things work out for you.
Sorry, OBE. We just recently received our marching orders to vax or else. No exceptions for telecommuters and we must submit proof (no attestations). All of this was squarely laid at the feet of Biden. Also, there will be no firings. Rather anyone who hasn’t submitted proof by X date will have resigned on that date. So no severance or ability to collect unemployment.
I ended up bending the knee to the needle. It’s made me even more pissed about it. Good luck in your fight and good on you for standing up to them.
Sorry, brother.
May I ask what formulation you chose?
Thanks. I went with J&J. They are getting hard to find though. CVS, Walgreens, etc. won’t stock them anymore. After several weeks of searching, I finally found a community health clinic an hour away that just got a few delivered.
The vaccine site says they have them in our area, but don’t offer appointments for them. My guess, if I had to and I made the decision, I would be going to a lot of those places to find that one shot. This meeting really left it open ended that ‘boosters aren’t required…but!’
Didn’t I read that J&J was moving to a double dose now too?
Maybe. They’re talking about it, but there doesn’t seem to be agreement on the time frame.
What? Confusion, disagreement, incompetence, and complete fuck-uppery surrounding this mess? Surely you jest.
They’ve applied to make it eligible as as booster.
At the moment boosters are “recommended” for only a subset of people.
99% is a proper subset.
Hey old man you qualify!
I am doing my part for SCIENCE by staying in the control group.
Same deal with me. For me, that was the best I could come up with for minimal compliance. I had a hard time finding it near me, but they had plenty in the next county over.
Any side effects?
Not sure who you’re asking, but I’ll chime in anyway. I had it 9 days ago. My shoulder is still a little sore, and one day last week I felt feverish before bed, but took some Tylenol and I was fine the next day.
Thanks, Kevin. I’m glad there was nothing more.
As a Glib, you should know better than to take acetaminophen–it interacts badly with the required alcohol consumption.
I am fortunate I had a very mild case of Covid, and a very mild reaction to the vaccine. I must have had it, or something very similar, at some point in my life.
Tinnitus. I can’t directly correlate it with the vaccine, but it’s certainly an unhappy coincidence otherwise.
It’s a known side effect of getting the actual virus. There are also anecdotes about it from the Pfizer vaccine. I haven’t seen much mentioned about it particular to J&J.
Mind you I’m pretty much a show me the math and evidence kind of guy so this is my anecdote and not my claim. There’s no good way to determine this as the whole side effect reporting process for any of these vaccines has been basically screwed up by both design and incompetence.
I had the J&J and didn’t have any notable side effects. Maybe I was just lucky, I don’t know.
Chest pain a couple weeks later. It lasted several hours. Strong enough that I called my wife to watch me as came in from outside but not enough to call an ambulance. Happened again for an hour or so a couple weeks after that.
I don’t know for sure that it’s a side effect of the vaccine. I’ve never had chest pain before though and it seems rather coincidental.
“Rather anyone who hasn’t submitted proof by X date will have resigned on that date. ”
How can they do that??
Come on, HE. You know the acronym by now!
Uhhhhh…. I won’t ask “can they do that”, because FYTW. But I’m just wondering what sort of specious, illegal grounds are they claiming that. The definition of resign is literally To give up one’s job or office; quit, especially by formal notification
The definition of terminate is literally To discontinue the employment of; dismiss
So we’ve lost the war on language that much, that we are now allowing an employer to say, “As the one who employees you, I hereby resign your position”…. and legeally that’s not being fired?
Oh and also, sorry to hear it man….
Language means whatever the regime says it means.
Look at Humpty Dumpty here.
Sorry.
Rather anyone who hasn’t submitted proof by X date will have resigned on that date.
I’ve heard of other places doing this. I understand most folks are employed at-will, but this seems like something an employment lawyer might be interested in.
anyone who hasn’t submitted proof by X date will have resigned on that date.
That’s not really what “resigned” means. I guarantee you that is a termination for “wrongful termination” purposes.
So no severance
Unless you have a severance agreement, there really isn’t any severance anyway (unless its part of a RIF).
or ability to collect unemployment.
Generally not available to people who are fired for cause.
I have heard a rumor- just a rumor, mind you- that there is a forum on the internet where blank vax cards could be downloaded and printed. Not that I would ever suggest someone do that. Because it would be wrong.
If I worked for anyone other than the very people
notkeeping a database on it all, I would have jumped on that a long time ago. Now for local venues…I have heard of such a resource.Well..looks like I should get into my office and start removing some items…
Best wishes to you.
Hold on to your butts…
Multiple people were shot on Wednesday morning at Timberview High School in Arlington, Texas.
Students and staff are currently locked in their classrooms.
The campus is on lockdown.
According to unconfirmed reports, a student shot a teacher in a classroom – the suspect has fled the scene.
Eh, I expect it will get memory holed pretty quick.
Its a normal thing between teenaged boys! It happens all the time.
Beat me to it.
*sweeps inconvenient crime under the rug*
We are looking for a shooting suspect in today’s incident at
@mansfieldisd Timberview School. Please call 911 if you know the whereabouts of 18-year old Timothy George Simpkins who may be driving a 2018 Silver Dodge Charger with license plate PFY-6260.
Arlington — I think that’s the official home of the “DALLAS” Cowboys.
Staaaahp.
The Dallas Cowboys haven’t had a stadium in the Dallas city limits since 1971.
Not sure if trolling:
Lots of people think the poor dears aren’t really responsibility and the
evil spiritsNRA makes them start shooting people.I have to listen to the radio at work and hear many times a day how a candidate for some office had her life ruined by a gun. Her father was shot in their house when she was 2.
I think there’s more to the story, but somehow that means she is going to ban ghost guns and a few other things.
Her father was shot in their house when she was 2.
Well, did he need shooting?
I mean, he is a cute kid. The grill really sets off his smile.
/OT rant
I think I can figure out why this user is having audio issues with their softphone. They can’t even figure out audio for any of the three meeting options they wanted to try.
I’m going with the smart money here, and saying it’s user error.
I hear you.
SF,
Great storytelling as usual.
“Ukpi? Is that even a Korean name?”
“Well, I’m Korean and that is my name.”
I had a Korean VP purposely misname my Japanese sales engineer multiple times during a meeting. After the meeting I corrected the VP on his name.
His response I will never forget.
He looked at the salesman and loudly said; “CHANGE YOUR NAME!”
Damn.
I tell my kids that they need thick skin because bullies never go away.
This guy was a great VP when it came to sales, but he was very hard on his underlings. Having thick skin as a salaryman in Japan or Korea is mandatory. It used to be so here as well.
“CHANGE YOUR NAME!”
“OK, how about [VP’s name]. Can you pronounce that?”
Ok, how about something a little lighter?
Janis, Steven and Chuck never grew up… and Keith…good ol’ Keith
one of my favorites
When the end comes, and even the cockroaches are gone, Betty White and Keith Richards will cross swords. There can only be one!
Who will prevail as the White Wizard though?
Very good!
Three miles.
Yes, I was able to start my walk early.
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OOOH Ozy…a great question just came up and all our leadership is absolutely stumped.
“Which Pfizer vaccine is the authorized vaccine that the FDA approved?” Lots of uh…’not sure what that means’…uh…move on! move on!
There’s also the valid question (raised in last night’s thread) of how, exactly, did any COVID-19 vaccine (even one miraculously not available at all in the USA) manage to get through all of its trials so quickly? The BioNTech-Comirnaty switcharoo stinks to high heaven on multiple levels.
It’s simple when you don’t actually conduct trials. Wipe out your control group? No biggie.
Right, but that’s Pfizer-BioNTech (the EUA-only one you can actually get in the U.S.). Did Pfizer-Comirnaty go the same way? I know Germans are efficient, but EU bureaucracy still takes time.
That would be a good question if we had an honest gov’t. OBE’s question shows the folly of blindly following orders.
Did you tell them it’s the one not available in the US?
Its a sit and listen format. However, the question came from a grunt and not a manager, so there are others out there either getting Ozy’s (and other places I have seen the same argument) and questioning.
So dead thread discussion on civil service sent me down a rabbit hole.
In essence the entire Article II power of actually RUNNING the Executive Branch was written out of use. Interestingly, the author suggests an EO could prompt a constitutional case to reassert Article II over all preceding legislative, executive and judicial mis-steps. HAHAAHAHAHAHAHHA
Yeah, if it even went to the Supreme Court they’d do like they always do when they have an opportunity to make sweeping change and write the decision in such a way that it is limited in application as if some local district magistrate in rural Pennsylvania wrote it.
Ugh. The point is right but once again the conservative allows bases to be stolen by his enemies.
The “spoils system” gets a bad rap. Civil service “reform”, yes the original kind codified by the Pendleton Act, was already a major usurpation of Presidential authority. “Oh no, the President will get his appointees to kickback to his campaign!” Uh, do you know how Congress works today? Have you ever looked at government contracting?
If you want to counter power you have to be willing to use power.
Jesus, from the article:
“I reject the progressivism of the 1960s. I wish to vigorously defend the progressivism of the 1880s instead!”
If you want to counter power you have to be willing to use power.
You do realize that is exactly the progressive argument for govt control of corporations. And how exactly does that work for us?
When I transferred from community college to four-year college, I wanted to be a math teacher. As it turns out, the teaching program is kind of special. You have to jump through extra hoops and follow a special plan to become a teacher. Unlike most other majors (like, say, math), your academic life essentially gets directed for you. It might as well have been called “Kindergarten for Adults”.
They don’t expect or know what to do with moderately intelligent people. You’re not actually supposed to pay attention. I took educational psychology, a 300-level required class. It might as well have been called “Psych 101 for dummies”. As you take more of these, uh, very rigorous, classes, you begin to notice a pattern. Everything has to be “research-driven” and “data-oriented”. But the data’s all bullshit and nothing ever can be replicated.
The quintessential pedagogical study shows that a particular strategy for teaching works very well when applied to a classroom setting. There are thousands of these studies. They date back decades. They all have different strategies. A thousand papers telling you a thousand different ways to teach and they all say it works really well. Then someone tries to replicate it and fails but they don’t publish that and you have to read between the lines to realize that’s what happened.
There are many ways to explain this phenomenon. One, of course, is that people are lying. And, no doubt, some lies occur, especially lies of omission. But the simplest explanation is that the people involved are what matters. It is not a question of processes, it is not a question of reproducibility, it is not even a question of fact or fiction. Put the right people in the right places and things go well. Don’t do that, and they don’t.
Everybody says they had “good teachers” and “bad teachers”. Studying teaching and pedagogy for a while, you realize that the “good teachers” tend to do well even in different environments whereas the “bad teachers” tend to do poorly even in different environments. There is some characteristic of the person that prevails despite external changes. Sure, if you hamstring them, make them answerable to malicious/incompetent bosses, elevate process to a religion, change the rules of the game too often and too capriciously, etc., it doesn’t go as well. So it’s not just a question of one person and process isn’t entirely irrelevant.
We say “principles over principals” and I think it’s right but only to a degree. “Finding” the right person is an indecipherable art with many pitfalls. But I don’t think “the right person” (= “good teacher”, etc.) is entirely a process of discovery. You have to combine natural talent with training and refinement. The best craftsman in the world wasn’t just “born that way”. We say that the market will account for these factors, by processes like division of labor, price signals, and so on. But that is reductionist. Price signals are useful; they are not intelligent and they are manipulable. Adam Smith observed that the market moves as though there is an invisible hand guiding it. That’s because he didn’t look very deeply. He may not have been wrong, at the level of abstraction he was speaking, but abstractions quite literally aren’t real.
Who knows what Trump would have done were he to have had the powers of Andrew Jackson. Arguably, he would never have even risen to the office, because Barack Obama never would have, either. But when the people decided they did not want to be ruled by the banking system, they elected Andrew Jackson and he fucking purged it. It took another 80 years to bring it back. And by that time, no one could wield the power to get rid of it again. Right now, conservatives enact timid laws that ban “Critical Race Theory” from being taught in the schools, with minor penalties attached. The people who want to poison children’s minds should be exiled or executed, not slapped on the wrist.
The best the right can come up with is Ron DeSantis, who is not terrible, but who is also a pale shadow of Andrew Johnson, never mind Andrew Jackson. He knows how to play the game, but he is also part of the game. He might even be the right man for the wrong job. But the job will still be wrong. The power it commands is miniscule. The change desired by the people (for good or ill) will not be effected. They will continue to be ruled, by forces they don’t understand, and whose existence they are trained from birth to ignore, and no one and nothing will have the power to stop it.
If you could have a libertarian or conservative dictator, would that not be preferable to a socialist system? Most of us, I think, would say: conditionally, yes. Ah, but! Who is to say the dictator will be libertarian? Bastiat looms large. Yet the ancient world was ruled by kings, not legislatures, and the shimmers of greatness we see today are centered around men, not committees. If you cannot conceive of the right person being able to do the right thing, because the power is inaccessible or unfathomable, then you are destined to lose. The power is still being wielded, but it is beyond your control. Why? “It would be wrong to seize it!” “What if it fell into the wrong hands!” It has already been seized and it is already in the wrong hands.
Good God, mucho texto. Sorry.
TL;DR: Last three sentences.
The “spoils system” gets a bad rap. Civil service “reform”, yes the original kind codified by the Pendleton Act, was already a major usurpation of Presidential authority.
The Presidential authority element doesn’t bother me, per se. The bigger problem is the related divorce of power and accountability. A spoils system allows the voting public some recourse to deal with a bureaucracy it is dissatisfied with. They could replace it at the ballot box. Civil service means, effectively, that the said bureaucracy is in place no matter what the will of the voters. Like so many of the Progressive “reforms”, civil service assumes that its subjects are personality-less automatons with no interests, perspectives or values of their own. But, the truth is that the bureaucracy has interests, goals and values distinct from other elements of the public. And civil service offers no check on their authority.
I agree. The Presidency and the spoils system was a way to check the bureaucracy. It’s not the only way.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/6/sweden-denmark-pause-moderna-covid-jabs-for-younger-age-groups
Cracks in the dam.
Our public health officials have completely ignored the Scandanavian countries in this. What makes you think they will make the 180 now? Our government has bought into the only way is forward and damn the consequences. Not just in this covid stuff, but with wars, our foreign policy, etc.
Stay the course and full speed ahead is what brought down what was supposed to be an unsinkable ship and yet, we follow that same path as if we are an unsinkable country.
Eric Weinstein with some interesting thoughts on peer review.
Disney+ just dropped a new hagiography of Dr. Anthony Fauci. From when he was saving us from spreading AIDs through sharing the same cereal box to lying to us about masks for our own good.
The malignant dwarf Anthony Fauci, mass murderer of beagle puppies.
“I don’t think so. It’s just the right-wing reporters anyway. Jim Acosta is crying and Kristen Welker is using her baby to fight them off.”
This is funny.
“Acosta only wants to bottom in bed, you know,” Jen said. “I bruised my pubic bone with a dildo trying to please that pathetic excuse for a man.”
Well, don’t try to please him.
“Stop calling me ‘ma’am,’” Jen said lightly. “You make me feel so old.”
“Yes, ma’am,” Ukpi whispered.
So Jen is a switch.
This place is getting way too gloomy, but there is some good news. Q’s replacement is being groomed as we speak.
https://nypost.com/2021/10/06/strip-club-owner-who-brings-kid-to-work-sparks-childcare-debate/
Like that was the first time a child has been in that place. Geesh, people really do believe the world is only as old as their memory can serve.
Kid is probably still nursing. Ah, to be young again!
Hey. Old school boobie movie Thursday. That should raise the mood. I do agree it gets dark and I do my part to lighten.
*suddenly perks up* Russ Meyer?
Some papers just have their own writing style, you know?
He’s a toddler. At that age, if he’s seeing the goods he’s thinking about food, not anything prurient.
“Bathroom time is Jen’s time!”
That reminds me of this bit of a Sirius commercial that I fine inordinately entertaining.
Well, so in some other good news, it looks like the Ohio state legislature has introduced a new wrinkle to the mandate arguments:
Emphasis mine, full story (including the appeal to panic) here.
“Employers are not forcing the vaccine on anyone, said McGregor”
Could have fooled me.
“The bill is Ohio House Speaker Bob Cupp’s response to other vaccine bills, including House Bill 248, which would prohibit all mandates, even in health care facilities, and drew bizarre testimony from people who falsely claimed the coronavirus makes a person’s body magnetic and that vaccinated people contain some property to allow them to “interface” with 5G cell technology.”
Right, there are no sane objections to the jab. TMITE.
“natural immunity” from having coronavirus antibodies
Even that is a scam. You are immune to all kinds of stuff you have no detectable antibodies for. People who have recovered from COVID and are unquestionably immune (to the degree anyone can be) don’t necessarily have detectable antibodies, especially if they recovered awhile ago.
Update on XX’s car accident yesterday.
Praise be to I Have A Guy™. The dude who fixed my Zippicar after my accident just finished fixing XX’s car, which needed a headlight bracket. It also needs some marks buffed out of the bumper. But, man, she did hit the other guy’s airbag sensor just right. Bad news: other driver is hurt, shoulder and face. I figure it was the airbags. Given she is not hurt and the other person isn’t hurt badly, this is going to be an expensive lesson for her, but not as expensive as it could have been. Time heals all wounds, after all.
That sucks, but definitely could have been worse.
Yes, much worse, like she could have lost the car she worked so hard to pay for. Or she could’ve really hurt the other guy. I hope I’m not sounding callous about the other guy, but my kid is my priority.
She’s still shaken up and not emotionally or mentally all there yet.
Sorry to read.
Not knowing that particulars – if she carried more than liability and is going to have an “at fault” accident anyway you may as well have the insurance fix her car as well.
Nope, just liability. Her car is now fixed. It needs a Scotch-Brite taken to a couple of spots.
Good news on little to no injury. Expensive lessons usually stick though. I had one “bad” car accident and that changed my whole style of driving after that.
Overall, she’s doing much better at life than I was doing at her age.
Sounds like a reasonably good outcome given the circumstances. Best wishes.
Yay for your guy!
So glad XX wasn’t hurt and the other driver wasn’t hurt badly. Has XX confessed to being distracted in any way? Maybe not – sometimes these things just happen.
Yes, she pretty much blurted out everything immediately. The dude she hit—his mother was in the car behind him and she immediately started recording everything. That freaks me right the hell out. It wouldn’t even occur to me to do that.
When I had my accident in May, when the cop asked me if I wanted him to cite the other lady, I said no because that’s what insurance is for.
The mother…I get it but I am with you. Doesn’t cross my mind, first is “everyone okay in my vehicle” second is “everyone okay in other vehicle”. Then its adult time in a civilized society to exchange info and move on with life. And kudos on the citation thing. That accident I mentioned earlier was all my fault. Looked down for half a second to grab my coffee and bam…threw red light and hit a guy making a left turn. Luckily was at a speed of 30 mph and only a glancing shot but clearly when the police arrived they could have cited me. My guess is the other dude had no insurance and didn’t want no beef with the cops.
A middle-aged lady rear ended me at a stop sign a couple of years ago. Minor fender bender. No injuries.
We both pulled over and looked at the two cars. I offered up my drivers license and insurance card and asked for the same from her.
She started whining about how I did something wrong and ignoring my request for her DL and insurance card.
After a couple of minutes, my wife called 911. A very nice county sheriff came by quickly; took all our relevant information; and then cited the other driver with a nasty ticket. She earned it.
What was the joke “Here’s your sign”. Some people just talk themselves into things they don’t want so effortlessly. Some stoner dude driving for Uber took wife and I home from the airport a number of years ago. Two blocks from our house, we get pulled over. His taillight was out. Dude had probably 50 of those Christmas Tree deodorizers hanging from his mirror.
Cop made sure it was a valid Uber and we were valid customers and was telling the guy to get it fixed and have a good night. Driver continued on that it was his girlfriends car, he didn’t know, blah blah blah. We were looking at the officer like “can you let him drop us off before you pull him back over?”
the essential thrust of this video should play on a loop.
Excellent…yeah I think even the cop was thinking that same thing. STFU I am letting you go!
A teenage girl rear-ended me in the granny car once. She was terrified. I told her no problem. Old car. No big. Her car was way worse off than mine Didn’t call the cops, didn’t ask for insurance. I did say, “Well, you’re going to have to explain THAT to your parents.” And I went to work.
Bad news: other driver is hurt, shoulder and face. I figure it was the airbags.
Probably. I have been in one “bad” accident – nearly headon, on icy roads, with a combined speed of nearly 100mph. Everybody walked away, no injuries. I wasn’t even sore the next day. Honda Civic (back when they were small-small), no airbags.
I smacked my full-size pickup into a light pole in a parking lot (dodging another driver), going maybe 5 mph. Airbag popped. My face was bloody and bruised.
My conclusion: airbags don’t do shit, with good engineering and seatbelts. But they will inflict minor injuries just about every time. If they were an option, I wouldn’t get them.
My personal opinion is that knee and side airbags probably help more often than they hurt.
OTH, the forward facing ones I’d prefer to be able to defeat.
Seat belts are sufficient to solve the problem.
But some people won’t use them.
So airbags are mandatory to save people from themselves.
OT – if you use the Company That Does Evil’s browser this little gem seems to work amazingly well.
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
Good one SF.
I was just mentioning hoarders this morning and low and behold my second job featured one. First eviction I’ve done in almost two years.
https://imgur.com/a/OwXP5jp
Impressive. No sail cats, tho.
No sail cats in this one. They didn’t answer the doorbell so I drilled the front gate lock and a couple other locked bedrooms inside. I thought they were at home and indeed they were pretending it wasn’t happening till the sheriffs got them out of the backyard. I don’t even bother trying to pick in that situation as I want to get out of the way of the locked door quickly.
Arson. It is the way.
The hauling bill is going to be 7 grand at least I bet.
OMG. Watch out for unseen critters.
If the first three times or so don’t work, why not try again?
The New Buell Motorcycle Is Starting Production With Sportbikes From 2014
I’m giddy. I had my first college town experience with poly-gender. Apparently, we’re now over 100 genders and the word “chromosome” is equivalent to “Hitler.”
Good times!
There’s no stupid quite like college town stupid.
This is being a massive source of entertainment for me.
Were they literally shaking after this? Did others witness their stunning and brave interaction with you?
Hopefully recorded for the Tik Toks and at least worth, 1 million internet bucks. “Look at this Nazi!”
I really really wish you guys the best but I feel like you’ve walked into a fire.
I should say you’re braver than I would be.
Apparently, we’re now over 100 genders
Are they mutually exclusive? If not, what is the limit per, uh, person?
That’s “ambulatory bipedal thing,” you cishet shitlord.
These weekly features are THE best thing on the internet. Thanks SF!